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Matchups

Throughout Sora's meta development, a lot has changed in terms of what characters prey on his weaknesses and which also are weak to Sora's strengths. It was generally believed within the first weeks of play, that Sephiroth, Samus were his worst matchups, now there are players that consider them even or even winning.

To gain proper context on why certain players believe why certain characters believed to be Sora's worst matchups and good matchups, it is important to understand where Sora is strong and weak. A more detailed explanation can be found in the other pages, but a brief summary is that they want to capitalize on Sora's lack of speed attributes while avoiding his high damage moves that leads into devastating combos. A character like Sephiroth fits this category perfectly. On the flipside however, Sephiroth does struggle against upclose pressure. In a sense, the matchup is all about if Sora can get ontop of Sephiroth, or force Sephiroth to come to Sora. This is just one example of the many dynamics within this matchup.

Player Matchup Charts

While bias is unavoidable, there is a general trend in all of these matchup charts. What's very important to consider is understanding that every one of these players come from different regions, where different metas apply, as well as how it has helped them shape the understanding of the game. Understanding all of these nuances for every region is borderline impossible since what is learned locally isn't easily shared. Skills that have been learned that have become intuition is not something that is easily explained unless one is very adept at explaining these concepts, and understanding every internal process is something that the field of psychology is still working on. This warrants academic texts in their own right, and won't be covered in detail here.

Either way, matchup charts from different regions are great because they can help give perspective on what could be lacking in a players knowledge for a matchup to be losing / winning / even. Perhaps you, the one reading this want to understand what nuance made a character go from being losing to winning, since that is highly valuable info. In the current metagame, Kameme reigns as the supreme Sora player, and as a result have "leading opinions" on Sora. This is not too say that every other chart is useless since Japan as a region is different. It is very tempting to say that Japan is the best region and going by any other opinion is not correct, but a lot of top players are not from Japan.

Kameme lost to Lights Fox at Glitch Regen. Arguably it was a "bad loss" since Kameme switched to Megaman. Whether or not Kameme lacked enough experience is difficult to answer, but a loss against a top player in a high stakes tournament shouldn't stain the character matchup. This would be less of a problem if there were more top Sora players, but there aren't enough of them. What Sora does have is a wide assortment of mid too high level players along with Kameme.

Issues surrounding objective matchup favorability will become less prevalent as the game ages. Sora is the newest character, and he is still on his way to get more results after being in the lab.

There are advantages with labeling a character as "a hard loss". While some players will give up, others will look for counterplay. Some counterplay does exist just haven't been properly implemented yet.

As a short introduction to every chart listed below, we have:

Kameme, has the best results and is the main top active Sora player from Japan
Nakat's chart, who is historically a top smash player all the way back from Brawl too the beginning of ultimate.
Komorikiri, a high level player who uses Sora occasionally. From Japan.
DTP, a Sora competitor in the US for both online and offline tournaments
Sora Discords Chart's main strength is that instead of being solely individually biased, it has group bias instead.